Fertilizer.



to provide a and va uable fertilizer that may be 'JAMES F. JARBOE, OFCHENAULTT, KENTUCKY.

spem'fication of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

. Application filed August 22, 1907. Serial No. 389,733.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES F. JARBOE, acitizen of the United States, residing at Chenaultt, in the county ofBreckinridge, State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Fertilizers; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear,iand exact descri tion of the invention, such as willenable ot ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

This invention has relation to fertilizers or composts that are capableof beingproduced on farms from barnyard manure and relatively inexensive materials that are easily procurab e in any market.

It is not only the purpose of my invention rocess for manufacture of achea read y roduced and utilized when made, but to a so produce a methodwhereby a fertilizer may be made. that will at once be an efficientinsecticide and fungicide and a most highly efficient permanentfertilizer, furnishing it with all of the elements and gases necessaryto the promotion of plant life, and leaving it rich w1th humus.

My improved fertilizer comprises in its composition the followingingredients, viz.,

. substances chlorid of sodium, (common salt), parisgreen, coppersulfate, kerosene, soap, barn-- yard manure or earth or both, nitrogen,in

the form of ammonia, muriate of potash,

phosphoric acid and lime.

The manure or earth mentioned acts as a filler, and either one orbothmay be em ployed. It is referable that the filler should e composeentirely of manure or at least partially of manure. Where the filler iscomposed partially of barnyard'manure and partially of earth, it isdesirable, if it can be done, to use for each' layer of filler threeinches of manure and one of earth. Layers of this kind may be employedwith the following chlorid of sodium, twenty pounds aris green, threepounds; copper sulfate, t ee pounds; kerosene, one pintsoft soap, onequart or hard soa on quarterof a pound; nitrogen in the em sulfate ofammonia, forty pounds; muriate of potash, -eighty pounds; phosphoricacid, one hundred and forty pounds, and lime (eventually) twenty-five toone hundred and fifty pounds.

It is understood that theforegoing ingredients, with the. filler, isused for the production of one ton of fertilizer.

In carrying out the process of compounding the fertilizer various waysand means may be employed. A convenient plan is the making of acompartment under a shed or roofed place, of five feet wide, by ten feetlong and as deep as may be desired. One ton of the fertilizer willoccupy from forty to fifty cubic feet of space, varying as to proportionof manure as a filler may vary. The suggestions given will vary somewhatin accordance with circumstances.

After cleaning the bottom of the bin or vat of the kind mentioned it maybe sprinkled with five pounds of chlorid of sodium. Thisingredient isnot employed as a direct fertilizer, but indirectly as such, its valuebeing due to the fact that it has the power to change unavailable intoavailable forms of plant food, a further use being to concentratemoisture in the mass, thereby assisting in the decomposition of thevegetable matter in the manure, earth, etc.

The aris reen, kerosene, and soap are used as lnsecticides andfungicides, as statedthird at a time on the next three layers ofmanure.I

Upon the chlorid of sodium and other solutions, used as above mentioned,a quantity of ulverized manure, the finer the better, will be spread inthe bin to the depth of about four inches, or say, three inches ofmanure and one inch of earth. Supposing this layer to be one of three tothe ton, there will be spread upon ,itabout thirteen pounds of sulfateofammonia (being about forty pounds to the ton). fifter spreading'on themass the ulfate of ammonia or nitrogen, as stated,

' there is s read or a plied about-twenty-six pounds 0 muriate o potashto ist in supplying the requisite starch to thegplant food.

Upon this there is next added "about fortyfive pounds of phosphoricacid, which is another essential ingredient of plant food, be-

sides assisting in the decomposition of the vegetable matter in themanure, earth, etc.

The above amount of chemicals is used in one layer of the compost, ofwhich there vare three employed to' constitute a ten, the remaining twobeing superposed upon the first in the same order ant composed of thesame ingredients. I

Of course, more than three layers may be contained in one heap or bin ifmore than one ton of the fertilizer is wanted; butthe proportionsspecified will be preserved in building the bin or heap.

After the heap or bin is completed or filled, the mass will be coveredwith a covering as 4 nearly air-tight'as possible, and be allowed tostand for from twenty F0 one hundred days, according to th'e temperatureof the weather and the character of the manure employed. After thorough4 decomposition has taken place in the mass, it may be broken apart by al'orkor spade and allowed to dry, when it may be pulverized and passedthrough a sieve for use in a drill or it may be spread upon the groundin any usual or known way.

From twenty-five to one hundred and fifty pounds of lime to the ton ofmy fertilizer may be added previous to spreading the same on the ground,he quantity of lime varying according to the character of the soil.

What is claimed is- Theprocess herein described, consisting in first dis)osing a layer of chlorid of-sodium in a suitable receptacle, sprinklingu on the layer of chlorid of sodium a dilute so ution of paris green,soap and kerosene, then disposing over the material thus treated a layerof pulverized manure and earth, then sprinklel over the layer of manureand earth a quantity of sulfate of ammonia, then dis ose over thematerial thus treated a layer 0 muriate potash, then dispose over themass a quantity of phosphoric acid, then sprinkle over the mass aquantity of chlorid of sodium, then sprinkle over the-mass a dilutesolution of paris green, soap and kerosene, then dis-- pose overt-hemass an air tight covering and permit the mass to remain a sufiicienttime to JAMES F. JARBOE.

Witnesses:

ScoTr CUNNINGHAM, JAMES .L. HIGDON.

